Marion Barry Mayor For Life.jpg  By 1990, Barry would be captured on surveillance video smoking crack with a woman in a DC hotel room. He wound up serving six months in prison for drug possession, but was regarded as a returning hero by many in Washington afterward, and was elected mayor again in 1994. Modal Trigger Mayor for Life The Incredible Story of Marion Barry Jr. by Marion Barry Jr. Barry believes that even though he was caught red-handed, he?s the real victim. He claims the city had awarded just 3% of its contracts to black-owned businesses before his tenure. Barry says he increased that to 47% of the city?s $2 billion budget. Powerful interests wanted revenge. ?White folks may let you in their country clubs to play golf, invite you out to dinner, take you out to play tennis, but when it comes to dividing up the money, that?s a whole ?nother story,? he writes. ?They didn?t want me creating all of these opportunities for black folks. So when the FBI set me up at the Vista [Hote
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